Hack Health event spotlights mental health, fosters student innovation
Huddled over laptops lit by colorful lines of code, around 80 students collaborated in 13 teams at the fourth annual Brown Hack Health event over the weekend.
Topic: Hackathon
Hack Health tackles emergency care
After a morning spent passionately discussing critical problems in health care, undergraduate and graduate students teamed up to devise innovative solutions to the issues they found most compelling.
Foster ’19: Against hackathons
Hackathons seem to be the hot new thing. A portmanteau of “hack” and “marathon,” hackathons began around the turn of the millennium when programmers gathered to solve problems related to sending data over a computer network.
Watson to host Hack for Humanity
The Humanitarian Innovation Initiative, or HI2, will host its first ever Hack for Humanity, an event for students to collaborate and create new ideas and technologies that address humanitarian crises around the world.
Students collaborate at convention for progressive healthcare technologies
A buzz of innovation and activity characterized this year’s Brown Hack Health.
Eat@Brown app lists dining hall menus, builds on Hack@Brown project
A team of first-years has launched an app called Eat@Brown that allows students to check the menus at campus eateries from their phones.
